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fCLASSIC TITLES – most of these are available in the school library; all through Amazon or iBooks, and many are available free
  1. 1. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne: misanthropist in a sub M
  2. 2. Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne: man takes a bet ... E/M
  3. 3. Anne of Green Gables – L. M Montgomery: bro & sis couple adopts boy ... whoops girl! E
  4. 4. Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen: He’s proud, she is too; He’s prejudiced, she is too – love at first sight ... sort of! M/H
  5. 5. Sense & Sensibility – Jane Austen: they’re left homeless & ripped off ... She & he almost ... No, yes, no ...?? M/H
  6. 6. Emma – Jane Austen: she’s a bit of a meddlesome matchmaker ... and it all goes awry. Or does it? M/H
  7. 7. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte: she’s smart, but poor; he’s rich and wild ... Will they? M/H
  8. 8. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte: by; she’s a nutbag, he’s the whole nuthouse! Death everywhere ... Whew! M/H
  9. 9. Middlemarch – George Eliot: It’s the story of the characters of the village of Middlemarch ... VH
  10. 10. Silas Marner – George Eliot: he is ripped off, loses everything (he thinks); finds a child ... and happiness! H
  11. 11. The Time Machine – H.G Wells: he builds a time machine (gasp!) goes to the future ,,, Eloi … and Moorlocks! M/H
  12. 12. War of the Worlds – H.G Wells: Mars invades … We’re all gonna die! M/H
  13. 13. The invisible man – H.G Wells: man invents an invisibility potion … uses it for evil (he’s a bit mad!) H
  14. 14. The Island of Dr Moreau – H. G. Wells: Weird doc does experiments with animals/men … H
  15. 15. Moby Dick – Herman Melville: Mad captain hunts a white whale that once bit off his leg … VH
  16. 16. Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane: US cicil war; boy flees battle, feels a coward … eventually faces his fear M
  17. 17. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe: shipwreck, alone, Friday, rescue (with pirates & cannibals in between) E/M
  18. 18. Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet etc – Shakespeare: boy & girl love/hate ... everyone dies! VH
  19. 19. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell: a horse’s life (worse than a dog’s!) E
  20. 20. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas: young naive youth goes to join musketeers ... has to save the Queen! E/M
  21. 21. The man in the Iron Mask – Alexandre Dumas: the (bad) king’s twin bro is locked up, masked ... will he escape? M/H
  22. 22. The Count of Monte Christo – Alexandre Dumas: man is betrayed by his friend (and wife?) ... prison – revenge! M/H
  23. 23. The Man Who Would be King – Rudyard Kipling: two soldiers adventure after Alexander ... King of Kafiristan! E/M
  24. 24. Captains Courageous – Rudyard Kipling: spoilt boy overboard ... fisherfolk help him grow up! E/M
  25. 25. The Jungle book – Rudyard Kipling: stories about the creatures of the jungle E
  26. 26. Treasure Island – R. L Stephenson: Bones gives Jim the map; squire & Smollett take him there BUT Silver!! E
  27. 27. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – R L Stephenson : what’s the relationship between good Dr Jeckyll & evil Mr Hyde? H
  28. 28. The Secret Garden – Francis Hodgson Burnett: she is orphaned, stays with her sad uncle ... and finds - E/M
  29. 29. On our selection – Steele Rudd: short stories about the early days of colonial Australia M
  30. 30. The fortunes of Richard Mahony – Henry Handel Richardson: life & times of an Oz doc from Goldfields M/H
  31. 31. The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy: teh Revolution is murdering the nobility ... except some are saved! E/H
  32. 32. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the world’s greatest detective short stories. M
  33. 33. Robbery under arms – Rolf Bolderwood: two brothers are seduced by adventure into helping Captain Starlight. M
  34. 34. For the term of his natural life – Marcus Clarke: innocent man sentenced to transportation to VanDiemens Land H
  35. 35. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard: expedition to deepest, darkest Africa to find the fab mines and gold E/M
  36. 36. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carrol: the rabbit, the Queen, the Mad Hatter ... They’re all there! M/H
  37. 37. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens: Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas
  38. 38. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens: Oliver shows us the grungy side of nineteenth-century London M/H
  39. 39. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens: Sidney Carton does a “far, far greater thing” ... M/H
  40. 40. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens: David’s dad dies, mum re-marries; David sent to boarding school ... M/H
  41. 41. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens: Pip saves a crim, receives mysterious money – a gentleman? M/H
  42. 42. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott: Dad’s away at war, the four girls grow up E
  43. 43. The Magic Pudding – Norman Lindsay: Bill, Sam and Bunyip Bluegum try to avoid puddin’ thieves! E
  44. 44. Prisoner of Zenda – A.D. Hope: Rudolph has to impersonate the kidnapped king-to-be ... E
  45. 45. Dracula – Bram Stoker: “I vant to suck your blood!” VH
  46. 46. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley: mad doc builds man ... VH
  47. 47. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain: Huck runs away with runaway slave Jim E
  48. 48. Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain: ratbag Tom, Becky and Huck ... and evil Injun Joe! E
  49. 49. Call of the wild – Jack London: Buck, the soft, pet dog is kidnapped from California and taken to Alaska E
  50. 50. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad: Marlow tries to find what’s happened to the missing Kurtz H
  51. 51. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad: Jim abandons the pilgrims on sinking ship ... later, redemption? H
  52. 52. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathon Swift: Gulliver’s journey through some strange worlds! M
  53. 53. The Odyssey – Homer: Odysseus and his crew take the long way home! M/H
  54. 54. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott: Rob is robbed, outlawed ... and extracts revenge! H
  55. 55. The 39 Steps – John Buchan: Hannay is framed, and then pursued by the evil spies: where are they? (Also Greenmantle) M
  56. 56. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Graham: ratty and Moley, together with Badger defeat the stoats ‘n’ weasels E
  57. 57. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald – you can’t recreate the past … but Gatsby thinks he can. M/H
  58. 58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley – test-tube babies, a ‘made’ society, sex on demand … M/H
  59. 59. 1984 – George Orwell – Big Brother, Room 101 – terrifying, and so real! H
  60. 60. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett – the classic Sam Spade; birds and the bird! M/H
  61. 61. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler – the classic Philip Marlowe! Mean, lots of betrayal. M/H
  62. 62. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger – Holden Caulfield, expelled alone in a wild NY M
  63. 63. The Lord of the Rings – J.R. Tolkien (any part/s of!) Bilbo, Frodo, Gandalf and dwarves n elves M/L
  64. 64. Charlotte’s Web – E. B White – a spider and Faith save Wilbur’s bacon! E
  65. 65. Lord of the Flies – William Golding – boys alone on a tropical desert island: bliss? No! H
  66. 66. Tarzan – Edgar Rice Burroughs … the man raised by the apes – classic story! E
  67. 67. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee … racism and violence in the US south E/M
  68. 68. Lord of the Flies – William Golding … classic castaway story: boys on a desert island – or is it? M
  69. 69. The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham … man-eating plants to wipe out blind mankind? M
  70. 70. The Chrysalids – John Wyndham … mutants must be ROOTED out! (But who can tell?) M